page_title: Lucius Manlius Sargent
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Lucius Manlius Sargent / Early life
context_page_description: Lucius Manlius Sargent was an American author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate who was a member of the prominent Sargent family of Boston.
context_section_description: Sargent was born in Boston, the youngest of seven children of Daniel Sargent Sr. (1730–1806) and Mary Turner (1744–1813), daughter of John Turner of The House of the Seven Gables. His father was a merchant dealing in fishermen's supplies who had moved from Gloucester to Boston and profited so much by his industry, prudence, and popularity that he occupied what was for those days a conspicuously expensive mansion, although his character was notable for thrift and dread of ostentation.
  He was the brother of businessman politician Daniel Sargent and artist Henry Sargent (father of Henry Winthrop Sargent), cousin of the early advocate of women's equality Judith Sargent Murray, and the nephew of American Revolutionary War soldier Paul Dudley Sargent. His paternal grandfather was Epes Sargent, a Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts.
caption: Portrait of Sargent's mother, Mary Turner, by John Singleton Copley, 1763
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